Gamasutra has a short interview with Frank Pearce at Blizzard. Most depressing, humbling, and downright scary fact: Their cinematics team alone has 85 developers.
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July 14th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Chris
What, you’re saying you don’t have 85 people for EE?
July 14th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Andrew Crystall
Um. That’s…rather out of proportion. Unless… hm…
July 14th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Marvi
To quote Robin Williams,
“….and when an 800 pound gorilla’s got you by the tits…you listen!”
While their guns are kinda big, I think it’s safe to say they’re playing the ’strength in numbers’ card.
New title from The Blizz though, gonna be interesting.
July 15th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Steven "PlayNoEvil" Davis
No, what is impressive is probably 2300 people in Customer Support!
July 16th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Mike Rozak
Actually, 2700 employees x 180 lbs/person (assume mostly men, and mostly overweight) = 486-ton gorilla!
But on the bright side, if you have a 9-man team, you only need 1/300th the food to survive… which is around 8 million subs / 300 = 27K subs.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:20 am
Jonas Antonsson
Of course the 800 pound gorilla has a different view of the world than the smaller animals so a normal banana - a sustainable meal for most - doesn’t look all that interesting to the huge beast.
That is why there is plenty of room for smaller developers to grap niches that huge companies like Blizzard aren’t particularly interested in (yet, at least).
The size of Blizzard doesn’t scare me and there is nothing depressing about it. Let them swing on the heaviest branches while we pick up what falls in the grass.
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